Buried Pepsi bottle cache found

Cherry Picker · Mar 10, 2007

In 1965 we had a major flood here in Dodge City Kansas. I was told a few weeks ago that the Pepsi Cola plant was flooded and all the bottles had been contaminated and were taken southeast of town where the were buried. 10,000 cases/240,000 bottles were buried.

After some research we found the cache. Our first test hole with the bobcat yielded bottle after bottle. Some date back to the 1940's. Here is some pictures of the first test hole.

spittfire · Mar 10, 2007

Bobcat

You are going to ruin so many bottles, dig by hand like it was a relic site.......which it is :lol:

booker · Mar 10, 2007

Looks like some old Dr P and 7up also--- You did good :yes:

ne_seeker · Mar 10, 2007

That's an interesting find!

Let's see now... 5 cent deposit times 240,000 bottles = $$$$$!

Rick in Mass · Mar 10, 2007

very cool !!! i stink at research,, well done !!

Cherry Picker · Mar 10, 2007

We are using the bobcat to just remove the top 2' of dirt. On the test hole we dug a bit deep to get an idea of how deep the pit goes. From this point we will use shovels and screwdrivers to keep from breaking as many as we can. There are 7up, Dr Pepper and Pepsi so far. The embossed ones are worth more and they all seem to be the 6.5oz or 7oz which is more valuable than the 12oz or 16oz.

Let's see now... 5 cent deposit times 240,000 bottles = $$$$$

Lets see. 5 cent deposit a bottle times 240,000 = $12,000

spittfire · Mar 10, 2007

Those are some cool looking bottles, how much are they worth? 8)

Cherry Picker · Mar 10, 2007

On average about $1 each but some of the embossed ones are fetching around $5-$10 each. Of course many are damaged as far as the labels goes due to being in the ground for 40 some years but we're hoping as we get deeper we will find the painted labels in better shape. The older embossed ones look pretty good though.

jason4kstate · Mar 10, 2007

Wow this is kind of eerie..I think my father used to work there back in high school.

dooby · Mar 10, 2007

Way too cool, a dump diggers dream !!!

Robin D · Mar 11, 2007

That is amazing. :shock:

Are you planning on cashing those in? That could bring in $$$ for sure.

RD 8)

B. Positive · Mar 11, 2007

Eyepopping finds! :shock:

You have struck gold, without actually striking gold! I'd like to acquire some of that kind of talent! :tumble:

Treasurekidd · Mar 11, 2007

Excellent find, and thanks for the great pics! Hopefully, the deeper you go, the older the bottles will be! That's an awesome story! Good luck with the project, hopefully you score some great stuff! Keep us posted!

RON(PA) · Mar 11, 2007

Excellent find. That is a lot of bottles. If those bottles could be sold, that would make someone a lot of money.

booker · Mar 11, 2007

Jason are you in Manhattan ?

jason4kstate · Mar 11, 2007

Yeah why?

booker · Mar 11, 2007

Just south of you in Emporia

jason4kstate · Mar 11, 2007

Thats cool I have some friends that go to ESU.

Beefcake · Mar 11, 2007

"Since they was free,I bet I must've drank me 15 dr. peppers...." all them bottles reminded me of Forrest Gump.

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